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  • Tornado damage extensive: More than 3,000 volunteers get to work

    Over the past decade Ron Harmon, president of the Birmingham Alabama Stake, has traveled throughout the Southeastern United States on a half dozen occasions to join with fellow Mormon Helping Hands volunteers following weather disasters in the region.
    Published: Saturday, May 14, 2011

  • Mission leader keeps in contact during Alabama tornadoes

    Some 70 missionaries from the Alabama Birmingham Mission found themselves potentially in the path of the April 27 cluster of destructive tornadoes. Mission President Richard Holzapfel endured several anxious hours fretting and praying for the welfare of the impacted elders and sisters in his charge. But thanks to the technology of the day, he was able to maintain nearly uninterrupted contact during the historic storms with each missionary companionship, worried parents and authorities at Church headquarters
    Published: Saturday, May 7, 2011

  • Lethal tornadoes impact lives of Latter-day Saints

    Just hours before some 150 tornadoes touched down April 27 across six states in the U.S. South — carving a historic and tragic swath of death and destruction — Colleen Robbins shared a harmless joke with her husband, Wade.
    Published: Friday, May 6, 2011

  • Church issues statement concerning storms in the South

    Our thoughts and prayers are with those recovering from extreme weather conditions in the South.
    Published: Thursday, April 28, 2011

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New mission presidents

Published: Saturday, Feb. 8, 1992

The First Presidency has announced the call of six more mission presidents. The new presidents and their wives will be assigned to specific missions later and will begin their service about July...